'Please Santa, more doctors, more nurses, more beds' was one of the signs held at a protest demanding more resources for the Emergency Department at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth today.
Organised by the ‘Safeguard Drogheda A&E Campaign,’ as more patients are expected to be brought by ambulance to the hospital instead of to Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan, staff joined politicians outside the hospital for the lunchtime protest.
Michael O’Dowd, Aontu representative in Louth, who organised the protest, said, “the first principle in medicine is do no harm and I am afraid that the plans by the HSE management to move A&E patients from Navan to Drogheda from this week, without giving extra resources, is rash, reckless and dangerous.”
